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Akira Kurosawa looks at Japan’s postwar depression in this gangster melodrama.
Akira Kurosawa’s kidnapping thriller explores the question, “Why can’t people be happier together?”
The most acerbic Hollywood satire of the 1990s.
Robert Altman’s take on America: “The darndest thing you ever saw.”
Brian De Palma creates a romanticized vision of the past and then uses it to question the era’s moral gray zones.
A story of greed and smarts from director John Huston, starring his father, Walter, and Humphrey Bogart.
An urgent and aggressive reflector of American culture’s distrust for its government.
Pixar realizes the full visual and storytelling potential of the animated medium.
Pixar’s most beautiful film.